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To: enumerated

“When you reduce the complex issues that led to the tragic War Between the States ...”


I didn’t reduce anything of the kind. I quite realize the issues that led to the war are complex, but I was stating the obvious effect of the war. Northerners did not go to war to free the slaves. There were riots in the North over the very idea. But, when the war came to an end, so did slavery.

We are stuck with this holiday, like it or not. And I have no doubt that this will be seen by most to be a ‘black’ holiday. I don’t think it hurts to remind people that for the most part, the slaves did not free themselves but were freed by the political party that we are told that most slave descendants apparently despise.

As an aside with no significance, yesterday my wife asked the teller at the bank if it would be closing early today. The teller had no idea that Congress had passed and Biden had signed into law a new ‘holiday’. Of course those who don’t get enthusiastically on board with it will be deemed ‘racist’.


47 posted on 06/18/2021 2:22:32 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

>>Of course those who don’t get enthusiastically on board with it will be deemed ‘racist’.<<

To properly celebrate mlk day, married men should have sex with the nearest available woman.

Else you racist.


50 posted on 06/18/2021 2:24:36 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The left does not want dialogue; it wants compliance.)
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To: hanamizu

“I quite realize the issues that led to the war are complex..”

Sorry I over-reacted.

“We are stuck with this holiday, like it or not.”

My wife and I are not going to celebrate the 4th of July this year, or any year, until something is done to address what happened in the last election.

I look around at my fellow citizens and their willingness to accept having an election stolen - and I must say, I’m not very impressed.


90 posted on 06/18/2021 11:45:01 PM PDT by enumerated
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